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harborage

/hahr-ber-ij/US // ˈhɑr bər ɪdʒ //

庇护所,避风港,避难所,庇佑

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : shelter for vessels, as that provided by a harbor.
    • : any shelter or lodging.
    • : a place of shelter.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inrefuge

Examples

  • He was heartily glad, as apparently eager arms gave her the desired harborage, that the other girl was by now blocks away.

  • The object of Ribault had been some safe and pleasant harborage, in which his people could refresh themselves for a- 14 - season.

  • No town stretched out its sheltering walls before him; there was scarcely harborage for his ships.

  • Intemperance, extravagant living, or immorality found no harborage on Plymouth Rock, no matter under what disguise it might come.

  • I suppose you know, Johnson, that I am a magistrate, and the proper harborage I give to breakers of the peace is the jail.